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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Cupcake baking with Special guest: Cakestory!!!

I am so thankful to have the opportunity to work with Wen from Malaysia who is the founder of Cakestory in Malaysia ^__^ A cupcake catering business! hehe! Found out we have a lot of things in common (mainly baking) and I hope that I can set up my catering business one day! Or maybe even a collaboration~! You guys should check out her facebook page! Many yummy cakes there :D

IngredientsCupcakes1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature1/2 cup (100g) caster sugar3 large eggs1 tsp vanilla essence1 1/2 cups (195g) cake flour (I just used plain flour)1 1/2 tsp baking powder1/4 tsp salt1/2 cup buttermilk1/2 cup blueberries, fresh or frozenLemon zest for decoration1. Preheat oven to 180oC and line 18 holes of muffin pan with cupcake cases.2. Beat butter and sugar with electric beater until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.4. Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture in three additions, beginning and ending with flour.5. Toss the blueberries in 1 tsp plain flour to coat - this helps the blueberries maintain their shape. Fold the blueberries into the cake mix.6. Fill cupcake cases with batter (~2/3 full) and bake for 15 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool on wire rack.Cream cheese frosting500g cream cheese, softened at room temperature160g soft icing sugar160g unsalted butter, softened at room temperatureJuice of 1/2 lemon1. In stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat cream cheese until smooth. 2. Add in icing sugar and butter and beat until smooth.3. Squeeze in juice of 1/2 lemon and beat until incorporated.Assembly

Fill piping bag with frosting and pipe swirls of frosting onto cupcake. If you have star tips, it would look even prettier! unfortunately I don't :(

Place blueberry on the top together with a sliced lemon zest.

Pro piping skills =p even without a tip!

pretty in blue :)

BakingTray & Cakestory

We had a great day baking! Also used the leftover cream cheese frosting for macaron filling~ Coffee flavoured macaron shell with cream cheese frosting! YUM! If you guys come up with any suggestions on what to call this new flavour... leave a comment below! We wanted to call in "Tiramisu" but realised that uses mascarpone cheese.. not cream cheese! Oops!!

New macaron flavour that needs a name!!

Check out our feast!!! :D

Thank you Cakestory for sharing your knowledge and tips =) Hope to use this recipe again and try out other flavours!

Wen from Cakestory and her delicious cupcakes ^_^

So that's all from me in 2013!!! Off to Brisbane tonight! cannot wait!! :D

Still have so many posts yet to publish but that shall wait till next year =D

2 comments:

Ohhhhh I love lemons and blueberries! The combination sounds so goodddddd. I do wish we could get fresh berries here but of course we can only get strawberries fresh (and not really truly fresh either unless I go to Cameron Highlands). The other type of berries I have to get from Tesco or other supermarkets that sell imported fruit and they are super duper expensive. :'(